Inventrix | April 27, 2011
You know that quote from Steven Moffat that’s been floating around and has everyone screaming SEXISM? You know, this one. “There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married – we [...]
Inventrix | March 18, 2011
(transcribed and completed from a twitter rant) There are just some kinds of encouragement that bother me a lot. Like, the whole “you are a wonderful person!” or “you can be anything!” Essentially they are the kinds that I feel either give unrealistic expectations or devalue your personal dilemmas and difficulties. Like walking to the [...]
Inventrix | February 7, 2011
There is this incessant need, I find, for people to take a relationship where two people love each other deeply – and not necessarily a romantic love – and demand that the two people clearly and obviously must have sex with each other. It happens all. the. time. There seem to be two angles for [...]
Inventrix | August 9, 2010
So I guess I hit a milestone in my interpersonal relationships today. Basically, I now have enough friends (albeit online and living in distant places) that I actually have distinct… ‘groups’, so to speak. And, uh, one of my friends clashed with a member of a group that contains a bunch of other friends. It’s [...]
Inventrix | March 25, 2010
So I was running out the door this morning and the brother of my landlord was outside setting up a ladder with his… assistant I guess. He (the brother) does all the handiwork on the house – and let me tell you, it is not of the quality my father’s handiwork has led me to [...]
Inventrix | March 8, 2010
We all know racism is a bad thing. “Don’t judge people by their skin color alone!” and so on are such common statements that I personally think they’re losing any sort of meaning to the general populace. But that’s a topic for another day. The fact of the matter is, racism, sexism, and all of [...]
Inventrix | February 24, 2010
I got a random anonymous question on my formspring account, which hit one of my ‘things I have a problem with’ buttons. I ended up typing up a really long response, and felt it was more suitable to be put on this blog. So I copied it here. The ‘question’ You are gorgeous. You are [...]
Inventrix | May 14, 2009
You all know how it goes. You start with some niche interest or genre or style, get a few people really into it to start up a legit subculture. People see it and think “hey, that looks cool”. Companies think “hey, new market!” The former often doesn’t really get the genre/style/interest, and the latter doesn’t [...]
Inventrix | April 14, 2009
Me! I discovered this fantastic and surprisingly accurate how-to guide for telling the difference between a geek and a nerd (via Twitter). The following are some quotes from the article which summarize the content quite effectively, in my opinion. A “nerd” is someone with an extremely intense interest or fascination in an intellectual field of [...]
